| Toward Ubiquitous Massive Symmetric Bandwidth: Version Eleventy-Seven Point Oh |
Louis Gray http://goo.gl/7pWc has once again alerted us this morning to the latest in the ongoing saga of foreseeable and avoidable communications industry insanity in the form of intentional bandwidth scarcity and pay-per-packet pilfering.
To avoid all this, some will recall that I began advocating that we should have done things right, from 1991.
However, it wasn't the typical idle banter insisting upon what they should do, as fills so many forums. Rather, we set forth upon a quixotic quest to build the first ETTH proof of concept and primed Silicon Valley to get it right in 2001.
We succeeded. However, neither the valley, nor that all-knowing, all-foreseeing invisible spirit medium known as the market were ready yet. Today, we must get it right for 2011.
What is it? It's about national communication grid robustness, redundancy, survivability in times of emergency, and plain old Keepin-up-with-Korea infrastructure competitiveness. It's still called Ethernet Everywhere, after all these years.
Why now? If all of your own reasons cited in LouisGraySpace and the previous paragraphs aren't enough, perhaps you would vote in favor of tens of thousands of dig and trench and wire and splice and tower and router config jobs.
A key, foundational component for Ethernet Everywhere is bit.ly/GoogleFiberhood
Therefore, if I am elected Google Fiberhood Ubiquitous Massive Symmetric Bandwidth Ambassador not only will I champion Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf's Interplanetary Protocols to the ends of the known galaxies; I will simultaneously embark upon the complementary, full time good will mission here on earth, to save the interwebz from an unsustainably tragic fate where:
- SMS over Ethernet: $39/mo
- Email over Ethernet: $29/mo
- MMS over Ethernet: $29/mo
- Games over Ethernet: $49/mo
- Voice over Ethernet: $99/mo
- Video over Ethernet: $49/mo
- Salmon over Ethernet: available only in cans
It's all just Ethernet. Sure, packets can be prioritized for any of those purposes, but All Packets Are Created Equal. The manufacturing and transport costs of a packet don't suddenly go up after 50 million of them blink in and out of existence on a light wave or radio frequency; or 50 billion; or 500 trillion; or yes, a googol of 'em. There are no manufacturing or transport costs for bits or packets. There is only network congestion, and network congestion can always be fixed by smarter routing, additional capacity, or you got it: Monopoly Pricing.
So you see, if you are an incumbent monopolist or oligarch, congestion has always been your friend, because so long as you sit on your plant and don't do a thing, you can demonize your leading innovators, call them bandwidth hogs and cry about the next round of fixed costs that would require you to reinvest profits from us, the customers, into actually improving service offerings to meet ... wait for it ... explosive market demand.
Every packet carries bits. Bits that don't know or care whether they are images, text, games, voice, video, or tele-robotic surgery gestures.
If elected, I will advance the interdependent causes of:
- Universal FTTH
- With fon.com like sharing at every edge
- With solar powered WiMAX on N of every 10 street lamp posts, per R&R req's
- With green-wifi.org on the end of every transcontinental glass strand possible
I will advocate a return to the normalcy of Open Access, and preservation of Net Neutrality.
To the other side of the aisle: Do not even try to whine about costs this time, Wall Street. Are you kidding, Bailout Boy? No, last time, you punked us with "what would anyone ever do with all that bandwidth?" Well, let's see. Oh yeah, only everything; precisely as promised.
Today, after two decades of trial and error and finally learning what works, it is time to fulfill that promise.
Paid for by @silverton for Google's Ubiquitous Massive Symmetric Bandwidth Ambassador.